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Recent Book Reviews
The Man Who Died
Although I have no idea how this book first came to my attention, (I follow a twisting path with many diversions on these literary research...
Fateless
Budapest, March 1944. The Nazis invade and occupy Hungary and so begins the systematic deportation of Jews under the supervision of Adolf Eichmann...
The Time of the Doves
The first time I have come across a book written originally in Catalan, this is a classic that deserves to be much better known. Natalia is a young...
Strange Weather in Tokyo
I try my best to avoid using clichés in these sales pitches, but what can I say except this book is a truly heartwarming novel with friendship, love...
The Door
"I didn't like my own secrets. I liked other people's even less." Writen in 1987, this novel charting the relationship between a successful writer...
Iza’s Ballad
After her husband's death, Effie finds herself uprooted from her home and her previous existence, with barely any say in the matter, in order to...